Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soldiers and War veterans paraded and huzzahed in virtually all Italian towns and cities; but at Rome chief attention was focused on Colonial Day by Signer Mussolini in a dramatic effort to awaken what he termed "the nation's colonial conscience...
...Colonial Day this same rousing theme was taken as a text by Dictator Mussolini, at Rome, where he proceeded to bestow a coveted medal on the corps flag of the Italian Colonial Air Force. In ringing tones Il Duce declared that during the four-month period of hottest fighting in the two African colonies, last winter, 4000 war flights were made, 100,000 rounds of ammunition fired, and 400,000 pounds of explosives were dropped upon native tribes foolish enough to resist the Italian colonizers...
...flight cooled the entente cordiale between the Italian and his companions. Last week the Italian took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, accompanied almost entirely by Italian scientists and an Italian crew, in the dirigible Italia, to explore the unknown regions around the North Pole for the glory of Mussolini and his Fatherland...
Married. Lucien Muratore, 50, famed tenor, recent husband of Soprano Lina Cavalieri (whom he divorced because of her admiration for Mussolini); to Marie Therese Brissaud, 23, actress, of Paris; secretly, a month ago; at Nice...
Meanwhile Right Honorable Members learned from London news organs that Signor Mussolini had just informed Mr. Kellogg that "The Royal Government of Italy . . . offers very willingly . . . cordial collaboration toward reaching an agreement...